Services which come closest to Heroku's convenience with free tiers are Fly and Render. Render seems to offer Postgres on a free plan. Another option is Railway which AFAICT doesn't have a free tier, but basic usage is quite cheap.
Bear in mind that free databases on Render are deleted after 90 days. That's not 90 days of inactivity, just 90 days after creation. They say it's a temporary measure and the are going to change it in the future (which I hope for), but for now it's not really a viable alternative for Heroku.
Good point! So it may be better to look at external DBaaS providers. For Postgres/relational databases there's aforementioned CockroachDB, and some others like PlanetScale, ElephantSQL, and YugabyteDB (Managed).
Thanks for the tip. I didn't consider Supabase for their managed database but I will check it out.
I don't consider Supabase as a Heroku-equivalent replacement, since it supports only short-lived database / edge functions and triggers. Heroku and the likes can run a “traditional”, persistent application server.
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Services which come closest to Heroku's convenience with free tiers are Fly and Render. Render seems to offer Postgres on a free plan. Another option is Railway which AFAICT doesn't have a free tier, but basic usage is quite cheap.
Check out this list for more services with free tiers (not just PaaS like Heroku): github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev
good tips
AFAICT = As far as I can tell
Because it took me longer that it should have to figure that out.
Bear in mind that free databases on Render are deleted after 90 days. That's not 90 days of inactivity, just 90 days after creation. They say it's a temporary measure and the are going to change it in the future (which I hope for), but for now it's not really a viable alternative for Heroku.
Damn, thanks for the tip! 👌🏻
Good point! So it may be better to look at external DBaaS providers. For Postgres/relational databases there's aforementioned CockroachDB, and some others like PlanetScale, ElephantSQL, and YugabyteDB (Managed).
Supabase is vanilla postgres and very generous free tier
Thanks for the tip. I didn't consider Supabase for their managed database but I will check it out.
I don't consider Supabase as a Heroku-equivalent replacement, since it supports only short-lived database / edge functions and triggers. Heroku and the likes can run a “traditional”, persistent application server.